Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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I signed with Big Yellow Dog and have been with them for years. The president of the company is a woman named Carla Wallace, who is an amazing publisher who just has a knack for female artists.
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
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When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.
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As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'
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I have no problem with being underdressed.
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I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.
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The Earth has never warmed this fast. We need to see how much we can change the world in the next 20 years.
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It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
